"Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails."

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Source : Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Powerful Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Everyone fixes up their face if itâ€™s not ideal, you know? Thatâ€™s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dadâ€™s nose. She goes and files it down a little, and itâ€™s all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so thereâ€™s degeneration, and it didnâ€™t used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.”

Source : "This is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being." by Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.
“The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sides. The more we become about the issues, the more successful we are.”
“Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.”
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
“My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.”

Source : "Complete Batman Begins L.A. Junket Roundtable Interview: Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas". www.grouchoreviews.com.
“Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living”
“It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to a certain extent, but not as feared by Christians. Freethought has never said pull down your churches, burn up your creeds, crucify your savior or reject your god. No one ever knew a Freethinker to try to make laws to control people. All their efforts have been the other way, trying to tear down laws already made which control by "Thou shalt" and "thou shalt not."”
“It's very hard to write humor.”

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